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The time must come when its gilded vaults, which now spring so loftily, shall lie in rubbish beneath the feet; when, instead of the sound of melody and praise, the wind shall whistle through the broken arches, and the owl hoot from the shattered tower when the garish sunbeam shall break into these gloomy mansions of death, and the ivy twine round the fallen column; and the foxglove hang its blossoms about the nameless urn, as if in mockery of the dead.
I jist dinna like to pit the lid ower him." "Hoot! hoot! Lat the Lord luik efter his ain. The lid o' the coffin disna hide frae his een." The last speaker was a stout, broad-shouldered man, a stonemason by trade, powerful, and somewhat asthmatic. He was regarded in the neighbourhood as a very religious man, but was more respected than liked, because his forte was rebuke.
Here it occurred to me that, as the landlord was a man of that county, I might do well to make a friend of him. I offered him a share, as was much the custom in those days; but he was far too great a man to sit with such poor customers as Ransome and myself, and he was leaving the room, when I called him back to ask if he knew Mr. Rankeillor. "Hoot ay," says he, "and a very honest man.
"Surely, this is not true of all owls," I said, and by reading further we learned that the barred, or hoot owl, and the great horned owl, were deserving of a surer aim of Merton's gun. They prey not only upon useful game, but also invade the poultry-yard, the horned species being especially destructive. Instances were given in which these freebooters had killed every chicken upon a farm.
"And while my profession is fighting," said Grosvenor, "I always expected to fight in the open fields of Europe and now I'm learning my trade in the deep forests of North America, where it's quite another sort of business. How long do you think it will be, Lennox, before we hear the owls hoot and the wolves bark?" Robert laughed.
'Surely, my dear, you jest, cried my wife, 'we can walk it perfectly well: we want no coach to carry us now. 'You mistake, child, returned I, 'we do want a coach; for if we walk to church in this trim, the very children in the parish will hoot after us. 'Indeed, replied my wife, 'I always imagined that my Charles was fond of seeing his children neat and handsome about him. 'You may be as neat as you please, interrupted I, 'and I shall love you the better for it, but all this is not neatness, but frippery.
Do you know a plague ship when you see one?" Captain Scraggs paled a little, but the prospect of the salvage heartened him. "I don't give a hoot," he declared. "I'll take a chance." "All right. Consider it taken. How're you goin' to get aboard her?" "In the skiff." "Where's the skiff?"
"The mayor of Marion is on his way to this hall!" The soldier's face was set into a grim expression and deep ridges lined his jaws. "I gave you all once tonight his word to me that he'd stand up for us on Capitol Hill, whatever it is they're trying to put over. I got the hoot from you when I said it. You wouldn't take my word and I just told him so. Now he's coming down here for himself! I say it.
And now the guards closed around their prisoners, the living and the dead, and they passed from my sight. In a moment the tension was relaxed, and a hundred voices were raised at once, discussing the sentence, the news of which had already gone forth; and outside the multitude began to hoot and groan and cheer. A man seized me by the cloak. "A just sentence, was it not, monsieur?" he asked.
I really think it looks like it! O man, would ye be guilty o' murdering yoursel, I may say! come awa come awa, dear for I'll no stand to see it." "Hoot, Janet, hinny," returned he, "come, dear, dinna be silly." Now, the number of the Highland party was completed, and they stood, a band of hardy, determined, and desperate-looking men; but the party of the Borderers was one deficient.
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